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From prime office space to dead weight: high-tech meltdown spills over to commercial real estate market

After years in which tech companies drove demand for office space, layoffs, slower hiring and AI tools are prompting firms to close floors, sublet space and cut costs, while real estate executives warn the housing market could be next

Hila Tsion | 06.07.26

Tech puts Tel Aviv in global innovation league, but infrastructure may hold it back

JLL report places Israel’s nonstop city alongside Austin, Berlin and Seattle as a rising global tech hub, but warns the next phase of competition will depend on premium offices, transit, housing and urban infrastructure

Hila Tsion | 05.27.26

Israel’s rental prices kept rising in early 2026, with Tel Aviv still most expensive

Average rent rose 0.7% in the first quarter and 3.5% year-on-year, CBS data show; Tel Aviv, Herzliya and Kfar Saba led the market, while Beersheba, Haifa and Ashkelon remained cheapest

Hila Tsion | 05.24.26

The embassy effect: how foreign missions boost nearby real estate demand and home values

After Israel approved land for permanent US Embassy compound in Jerusalem and Herzliya unveiled plans tied to the future UAE Embassy, real estate experts say proximity to diplomatic missions can raise prestige, security and demand, and also increase values by up to 20%

Hila Tsion | 05.21.26

Residential neighborhood under construction

As housing market slips into deep freeze, developers cut home prices - without saying they did

Israel’s housing market continues to stall, pushing contractors to offer discounts of up to NIS 700,000 through consumer clubs; average apartment prices fell 1.6% in Q1, though demand in major cities such as Tel Aviv and Jerusalem remains strong

Hila Tsion | 05.20.26

Israel's inflation flares in April as gas prices hit households

Consumer prices jumped on higher gas costs, but annual inflation remains within target as markets expect a Bank of Israel rate cut

Gad Lior, Hila Tsion | 05.15.26

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Jerusalem’s war on ghost apartments: family-size housing jumps 50%

A review for Jerusalem Day finds the city is curbing small-apartment approvals and advancing four-room homes, as urban renewal approvals jumped 129% in three years

Hila Tsion | 05.14.26

Half of foreign homebuyers in Israel are Americans: here’s where they buy

For the first time, Finance Ministry economists analyzed first-quarter real estate deals by buyers’ country of origin, finding a rise in purchases by French and British nationals, who favored lower-priced apartments

Hila Tsion | 05.13.26

Da Vinci Tower. Some of the apartments were hit by an Iranian missile

After Iranian missile strike, Abou Family REIT saw 'once-in-a-generation opportunity'

Abou Family REIT bought 40 Da Vinci Towers apartments in Tel Aviv from the Israel Land Authority after an Iranian missile strike at a discount, about 2M shekels per unit after renovation; it is marketing 20 units for 13,000–16,000 shekels monthly

Hila Tsion | 05.06.26

Adam Neumann’s Flow expands Miami portfolio with $200M Wynwood residential deal

Flow and Greybrook will rebrand the 318-unit project as Flow Wynwood, with planned upgrades expected to lift its value above $300 million

Hila Tsion | 05.06.26

What buyers paid for secondhand homes across Israel this week?

As housing prices keep dropping, secondhand apartment deals offer a snapshot of current demand — from a Be’er Sheva garden apartment that sold for 1.4 million shekels to a Haifa penthouse bought for 2.1 million shekels

Hila Tsion | 05.03.26

The gap squeezing Israeli households: home prices jumped 130%, income only 45%

A new Shoresh Institution study explains why buying a home in Israel is so difficult: over the past 20 years, even before the war deepened the crisis, home prices rose three times faster than household income

Hila Tsion | 04.29.26

Israelis no longer buy homes where they want to live, but where they can afford to

A review of about 700 homebuyers found more than half bought in locations dictated by budget rather than preference, as soaring prices push families from Kiryat Ono to Or Yehuda, from Rishon Lezion to Yavne and Be'er Yaakov, and from Beersheba to Ofakim

Hila Tsion | 04.27.26

Israel housing market cools as apartment prices slip in latest CBS index

Secondhand home sales: Find out how much a 4-room apartment with an area of 110 square meters in Be'er Sheva sold for, or a 5-room penthouse in Nahariya; and where was a 4-room garden apartment sold for about 4 million shekels?

Hila Tsion | 04.26.26

Idan Ofer buys Manhattan office tower in $350 million bet on housing conversion

Israeli billionaire acquires 845 Third Avenue in Midtown East and plans to turn the 21-story office building into a 529-unit rental property, as New York pushes conversions to address vacant office space and boost housing supply

Hila Tsion, Navit Zomer | 04.14.26

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